Chroma

Year Released: 2014Developer: HarmonixPublisher: Harmonix

Completely reimagining the classic Arena FPS formula, Chroma infuses fast-paced PC shooter action with music-driven gameplay. Join the fight as a Fader, a musical icon of the future, and battle for control of the all-encompassing cultural feed known as The Signal. In Chroma, music is your weapon. Sound is your arsenal.

Ian Hawes ('12, QA Tester)

Dyscourse

Dyscourse is an experimental interactive narrative game about moral gray area decision making and group psychology. The player explores the "human component" of survival as they control Rita, a plane crash survivor stranded on a deserted island with her fellow passengers. The survivors must endure the hardships of the island — and each other — to survive.

Alex Schwartz ('09, Founder of Owlchemy Labs and Game Designer)

Fantasia: Music Evolved

Fantasia: Music Evolved is an upcoming motion-controlled music rhythm game developed by Harmonix for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One with Kinect. It is the interactive successor to Walt Disney's 1940 animated film Fantasia and its 1999 sequel Fantasia 2000.

Ian Hawes ('12, QA Tester)

Elegy for a Dead World

Elegy for a Dead World is a side-scrolling research video game in which the player creates a journal noticeable by another people. The gamer examines 3 worlds influenced by British intimate poets Shelley, Byron, and Keats. Although discovering, the gamer creates records to their examination. The records are openly noticeable via Steam Workshop. The group taking down notes technician attained it an respectable state for the Nuovo Award in the 2014 Independent Games Festival.

Elliot Borenstein ('11, Technical Lead)

Lords of New York

Lords of New York is an adventure game for PC, Mac and iOS following the stories of three characters in 1920s New York City. Prohibition is in full swing, alcohol is forbidden and business is booming for the mafia. Speakeasies and jazz clubs are packed every night. New York City is alive with a new-found freedom where anything is possible.

Beth Hankel ('12, Lead Character Artist)

Catlateral Damage

Year Released: 2014Developer: Chris Chung

Catlateral Damage is a game where you play as a cat and try to knock all your owner’s possessions onto the ground. The original version was made for the August 2013 7DFPS game challenge. It is currently in development (alpha).

Go Home Dinosaurs!

Prevent hordes of marauding Dinos from crashing your party in the world’s premier BBQ defense simulator! Unlock powerful towers that act like little weaponized puzzle pieces. Take control of a rock-throwing, coconut-gathering gopher and build your battlefield to keep those Dinos at bay.

Ryan Chadwick ('11, Junior Artist)

Nigeria Small-Scale Exports

In the Nigeria Small-Scale Export simulation you can explore a simulation about helping small-scale traders of farm products to export across a small land-border crossing. You have limited resources, however, and can only focus on a few of the many possible issues during any period, although you can revise those decisions from time to time. And this choice is not easy!

Chris Daley ('11, Simulations Developer)

NBA Math Hoops

Year Released: 2013Developer: Infrared5

The NBA Math Hoops app is now live! The completely free iOS and Android app is both fun and educational, helping students build fundamental math skills while managing a team of NBA and WNBA players. Download the app today on your smartphone or tablet, and check back often for updates. We are constantly developing and improving the gaming experience!

Elena Ainley ('12, Production Assistant)

Heroes of Dragon Age

Year Released: 2013Developer: Capital GamesPublisher: Electronic Arts

Derrick Barth ('12, Technical Artist)

Pandora: Purge of Pride

Year Released: 2013Developer: High Class KitchPublisher: High Class Kitch

Pandora: Purge of Pride is a first person puzzle game set in Victorian England based around the story of Pandora's Box. Playing as Pandora, you recapture the Seven Deadly Sins and gain powers to solve puzzles.

Lord of the Rings Online: Helm's Deep

Year Released: 2013Developer: TurbinePublisher: Turbine

Joshua Walkowski ('09, QA Tester)

Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign

Year Release: 2013Developer: Demiurge StudiosPublisher: Marvel

Professor Keith Zizza took the role of Audio lead in this new Marvel game. He created the sounds for the X-Men, Avengers, Dr. Doom, Venom, and a host of other characters in the Marvel Universe, along with trying to produce tactile game board feedback and mixing several real-time layers of audio. He will also add sound effects as new characters are introduced in the game.

Professor Keith Zizza (Audio Lead)

Lucien LeMenager ('13, QA Tester)

John Q Averageman

John Q Averageman tells the story of an average construction worker trying to get his favorite beverage: Fluff Beer. The player navigates John Q Averageman through each level to reach the ultimate golden beverage. This platformer game is now available on Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android.

Owen Leach ('13, Lead Designer and Project Manager )

James Salvati (RBE graduate, Technical Director)

Robot Rising

Robot Rising is a 3D Facebook game. In a world where robots are tools of war, technology and power fuel generations of conflict. As one of a new species of self-aware Artificial Intelligence, your challenge is to find a way to survive, and even thrive, by gathering resources, building your base, and conquering the vast planetary complexes occupied by the ruthless New Bastion. Evolution or extinction, these are your only choices.

Owen Leach ('13, Design Intern)

Jack Lumber

Alex Schwarts graduated from WPI in 2009 from the IMGD program as a technical artist. As the founder of Owlchemy Labs, he has developed several games. Jack Lumber features a lumberjack whose granny has been killed by a tree, so now he’s out for revenge. He uses his supernatural lumberjacking powers to chop up all of the trees. It is a 2D handheld game that is now available for iOS.

Eric Sutman ('09, Game Designer)

Lord of the Rings Online: Riders of Rohan

Year Released: 2012Developer: TurbinePublisher: Turbine

Joshua Walkowski ('09, QA Tester )

Ian Hawkes ('12, QA Tester)

Farmville 2

Year Released: 2012Developer: ZyngaPublisher: Zynga

Khoa DoBa ('11, Senior Mobile Software Engineer)

Dungeons & Dragons Online: Menace of the Underdark

Year Released: 2012Developer: TurbinePublisher: Turbine

Ian Hawkes ('12, QA Tester)

US Healthcare Simulation

Year Released: 2012Developer: SimudynePublisher: Simudyne

The US Healthcare Simulation is a gamification of a large scale simulation of the US Health Care system to allow disparately interested parties to come together around the nature and scope of interventions to be made in order to help improve community health.

Rock Band Blitz

Rock Band Blitz brings the excitement of a full band experience right into your hands! Music gaming pioneers Harmonix are introducing an all-new way to experience your favorite songs with an over the top, addictive, controller-based gameplay experience – no instrument peripherals needed!

Shoot Many Robots

Snuggle Truck

Snuggle Truck is a driving/racing action game developed by Owlchemy Labs. After its initial concept, Smuggle Truck was rejected by Apple's App Store due to its controversial subject matter, the characters were swapped out for stuffed animals and the game was retitled Snuggle Truck in 2011. Since then, approximately 2 million copies have been downloaded for iOS, with 1.3 million downloads during the 9 days after going free-to-play. On March 26, 2012, both Snuggle Truck and Smuggle Truck were included in the Humble Bundle for Android 2, though the latter is only available on Android.

Alex Schwartz ('09, Founder of Owlchemy labs and Producer)

Smuggle Truck

Smuggle Truck is an over-the-top physics-based driving game where you must save your passengers by smuggling them across the border in the least amount of time. Tilt your truck, catch newborn babies, drive over armadillos, and rocket your way through hills, caverns, deserts, and forests to save the people!

Ricochet HD (PS3)

Higgins Armory Virtual Joust

Year Released: 2011Developer: Cordell Zebrose Publisher: N/A

This is a Virtual Joust game created for the Higgins Armory Museum. Created by a team of 6 and an outsourced animator, the project uses Wii technology, putting the player in the seat of a live action joust.

Deadliest Catch: Sea of Chaos

Green Day Rockband

Year Released: 2010Developer: Harmonix/DemiurgePublisher: MTV Games

Professor Britt Snyder
For this title, Britt Snyder created the amplifiers and props for the different levels. He worked as an independent contractor for Demiurge Studios who was outsourced by Harmonix.

Rock Band 3

Rock Band 3 is the next generation of the ultimate social and interactive music gaming platform developed by the category's leading pioneers, Harmonix Music Systems. Featuring innovative game modes and instruments, Rock Band 3 will change the way fans think about and play music games.

Tom Peteson ('08, QA Tester and Assistant Lead)

Dance Central

Dance Central is a music rhythm game for the Xbox 360 that uses the Kinect motion peripheral. The game was developed by Harmonix, creators of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises, and is a launch title for Kinect.

Call of Duty World at War

Rock Band 2

Rock Band 2 allows up to four players to simulate the performance of popular songs by playing with controllers modeled after musical instruments. Players can play the lead guitar, bass guitar, and drum parts to songs with "instrument controllers", as well as sing through a USB microphone. Players are scored on their ability to match scrolling musical "notes" while playing instruments, or by their ability to match the singer's pitch on vocals.

Tom Peterson ('08, QA Tester and Assistant Lead)

Evan May ('08, Programmer)

Ian Hawkes ('12, QA Tester)

Fieldrunners

Fieldrunners is an award winning tower defense game developed by Subatomic Studios. It’s currently available for the iPhone, iPad, Android, PSP, NDSi, and more! Descend into the world of Fieldrunners, the most anticipated and visually stunning game in mobile Tower Defense history!